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Making sense of cities : a geographical survey
- Title
- Making sense of cities : a geographical survey / Blair Badcock.
- Author
- Badcock, Blair.
- Publication
- London : Arnold, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GF125 .B33 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In the year 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing urbanization shows no signs of slowing, and the third millennium looks set to be an unprecedentedly urban one." "In this context, Making Sense of Cities provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to contemporary urban geography. It offers students a sense of the patterns and processes of urbanization and the spatial organization of cities, recognizing the significance of globalization, economics, politics and culture from a range of perspectives. Above all, it seeks to provide a relevant approach, inviting students to engage with competing theories of the urban and to assess them against the background of their own opinions and personal experience."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Cities and towns > Textbooks
- Cities and towns > Growth > Textbooks
- Urban geography > Textbooks
- Urban geography
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns > Growth
- Cities
- human geography
- cities
- suburban growth
- urban sprawl
- Stadtgeografie
- Stadtsoziologie
- Steden
- Urbanisatie
- Stadsplanning
- Stadtgeographie
- Stadtgeographie > Lehrbuch
- Genre/Form
- Textbooks
- Note
- Blair Badcock is Policy Manager at the National Office of the Housing New Zealand Corporation, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-266) and index.
- Contents
- Urbanisation processes and patterns in an era of globalisation -- Urban systems and the growth of cities -- Geography of wealth creation in cities -- Location of economic activities in cities -- Work performed in cities -- Housing markets and residential location in cities -- Social and cultural mosaic of cities -- City environments and living conditions -- Urban politics and the management of cities -- Outlook for the urban millennium.
- ISBN
- 0340742232
- 9780340742235
- 0340742240
- 9780340742242
- LCCN
- 2003268506
- OCLC
- ocm50070640
- 50070640
- SCSB-1301485
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library